Farhan Akhtar has been cast as Ravi Shankar in Sam Mendes' Beatles films, but who exactly was this man? A concise history of the sitar maestro who mentored George Harrison.

It’s a journey with an Icon when we celebrate the 105th Birthday of Indian sitar master, Ravi Shankar. His music spanned from classical Indian ragas to films to world fusion. We’ll hear an interview ...

The debate resurfaced in 2026 when Anoushka Shankar spoke in an interview with Humans of Bombay saying, “My father was never ...

The controversy began after sitarist and Ravi Shankar's daughter Anoushka Shankar clarified that Rishabh Rikhiram Sharma was ...

The Ravi Shankar Institute for Music and Performing Arts refutes claims by sitar player Rishab Rikhiram Sharma of being Pandit Ravi Shankar's last and youngest disciple. Anoushka Shankar clarified ...

A few blogs ago I wrote about the role of discipleship in Indian music. About Ravi Shankar giving up his live as a musical dandy, an artistic jack-of-all-trades, for a live of asceticism and musical ...

The Ravi Shankar Institute for Music and Performing Arts has issued a clarification regarding sitarist Rishab Rikhiram Sharma’s association with Pandit Ravi Shankar. The statement addresses his claim ...

The new documentary about George Harrison, which airs this week on HBO, is garnering praise from across the media landscape (“a significant and substantially new take on the band and its most elusive ...

A public disagreement has emerged between sitarist Rishab Rikhiram Sharma and Anoushka Shankar regarding his status as a ...

According to the statement released by Rishab Rikhiram Sharma’s team, Ravi Shankar personally called Sanjay Sharma, on January 2, 2012, requesting the presence of his then 13-year-old son for a 'Ganda ...

In a recent interview, Anoushka said Sharma was never formally a disciple of her father contrary to claims that have been circulating widely in recent years ...